Cardano Treasury Explorer. An open data source for tracking treasury spending on the Cardano blockchain. Bringing transparency and accountability to community funds.

ADAspending provides a comprehensive solution for community members to understand how treasury funds are allocated and utilized within the Cardano ecosystem.

• Track Funds: Monitor how treasury funds are distributed across different projects and initiatives within the Cardano ecosystem.

• Review Proposals: Explore funded proposals with detailed information about recipients, requested amounts, and project outcomes.

• Analyze Data: Gain insights through interactive visualizations showing treasury spending patterns and fund allocation trends.

• Search & Filter: Easily search and filter through funding data by categories, recipients, and time periods to find exactly what you're looking for.

• Historical Trends: View historical spending data and trends over time to better understand the evolution of Cardano treasury management.

• Community Insights: Understand how the community is making decisions about fund allocation and which areas are receiving the most support.

Why ADAspending Matters? Community governance and treasury management are central to Cardano's decentralized ecosystem. ADAspending provides the transparency needed for community members to understand how funds are allocated.

• Public access to comprehensive funding data
• Searchable database of all proposals and recipients
• Interactive visualizations and data analytics
• Historical trends and timeline analysis
• Connections between projects, recipients, and outcomes
• Detailed insights on fund allocation and outcomes

Tech stack

• Front-end: NextJS
• Back-end: NodeJS
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Cardano Source: Cardano DBSync
• APIs: GovTool / Maestro / Blockfrost
• Smart Contracts: Aiken

How ADAspending Works

1. Data Collection: We collect and process data directly from the Cardano blockchain and public treasury records.

2. Data Analysis: Our algorithms categorize and analyze the data to identify patterns and trends in spending.

3. Visualization: Data is transformed into intuitive charts and graphs that make complex information easy to understand.

4. User Access: You get access to all this information through our user-friendly dashboard and search tools.

The Cardano community and ecosystem need a unified, transparent, and user-friendly platform to explore and analyze how treasury funds (money) are being allocated, spent, and tracked over time.

While some data is available on platforms such as Cardano block explorers, GovTool, Intersect website, gitbook, websites and google spreadsheets, powerpoints and documents, it remains fragmented, difficult to navigate, and often inaccessible to the broader Cardano community or outsiders.

With this proposal, we address the critical need for financial transparency and community accountability by creating ADAspending.com - an open data portal that aggregates and visualizes treasury spending on the Cardano blockchain in a user-friendly and accessible interface.

Inspired by USAspending.gov, ADAspending.com empowers voters, proposers, researchers, the community, and stakeholders to follow the flow of ADA from the treasury to proposals, with on-chain verification, cross-referencing, and analysis of the information.

This project brings great value to multiple segments of the Cardano ecosystem by increasing transparency, accountability, and trust in the treasury system, a fundamental element of decentralized governance. Among the benefits, we highlight by segments:

• Benefits for Community Members and Voters: Get a clear and easy-to-use view of where treasury funds are being directed and going, how much is being spent, and who is receiving the funding, helping them make more informed decisions when voting or delegating their voting power to a DRep in Cardano’s decentralized governance.

• Benefits for Project Proponents: Access historical funding data, identify trends, and compare their proposals to previous successful (and unsuccessful) initiatives.

• Benefits for DReps: Use the platform to track funding performance and outcomes, improving decision-making and voting strategies.

• Benefits for Researchers, Auditors and Finance Members: Monitor and track the delivery of funded proposals and compare them to what was promised, facilitating better accountability and reporting.

• Benefits for SPOs and Developers: Leverage structured, publicly available data for analytics, governance research, dashboards, and community tools.

ROI to the Cardano Community

• Enhanced Treasury Transparency: Promotes trust in the on-chain governance process by offering a single, open-source interface to track every ADA spent.
• Increased Community Engagement: Lowers the entry barrier for new community members to understand treasury flows.
• Better Funding Decisions: Helps avoid waste, identify high-performing proposals, and support more impactful initiatives, optimizing treasury ROI.
• Support for Governance Evolution: As Cardano matures toward full on-chain governance, ADAspending.com will become a vital tool for monitoring public resource allocation in a decentralized way.

Platform's KPIs:

• Number of registered users: 3,000
• Session duration: 4min
• Total amount tracked on the platform: minimum $250.000.000
• Number of hits to the website: minimum 50,000
• Number of tracked transactions: minimum 7,500
• Number of vendors/suppliers: minimum 350

Milestone 1 - Information architecture, Mind Map and Wireframe Outputs:

• (A) Information architecture with the Mind Map
• (B) Platform wireframe

Evidence of milestone completion

• (A) Document/PDF describing the Sections of application and Mind Map. This document will be easily understandable to both technical and non-technical community members
• (B) Document/PDF or Link to wireframe platform

Milestone 2 - Tech requirements and UX/UI design Outputs

• (A) Definition of Tech requirements
• (B) Creation of the UX/UI design for the application interface

Evidence of milestone completion

• (A) Document/PDF describing technology requirements of the application
• (B) Link to Figma UX/UI design

Milestone 3 - Front-end programming Outputs

• (A) Front-end platform: design of the web platform for interaction with the user

Evidence of milestone completion

• (A) Github with the front-end source code developed until the moment

Milestone 4 - Back-end programming + Blockchain integration Outputs

• (A) Back-end development: completion of the back-end development of the platform
• (B) Cardano blockchain: integration with Cardano node and/or APIs

Evidence of milestone completion

• (A) Github source code developed until the moment
• (B) Document with the cardano blockchain integration and results

Milestone 5 - Golive Outputs

• (A) Form with Collecting of feedback on platform
• (B) Launch of the platform
• (C) Github source code developed

Evidence of milestone completion

• (A) Link to Google Form to collect users feedbacks
• (B) URL Link to the platform Live (online)
• (C) Github link with the completed of the source code developed

Measure Progress: We will give the community some sort of progress report as we go along, in the form of a monthly news release on Cardano Feed, to measure the progress of our project.

Detailed Budget Breakdown:

Team

• Product Owner = $10,800
• Designer UX/UI = $10,800
• Technical Lead = $42,000
• Developer Full-stack = $33,600
• Developer Cardano Node Specialist = $38,400
• Data Scientist = $30,000
• DevOps Engineer = $26,400
• Marketing Assistant = $8,400
• Project Lead & Coordinator = $42,000
• Social Media = $7,200
• Subtotal: $249,600

Tech Stack (1 year)

• Amazon AWS Services Maintenance = $5,731
• Digital Ocean Servers = $5,330
• Add-ons, notifications and endpoints: $2,480
• Crawler, scraper and APIs: $3,950
• Subtotal: $17,491

Marketing and Research (1 year)

• Marketing Budget = $8,850
• Tech and Research = $5,950
• Subtotal: $14,800

Contingency

• Contingency Costs (15%) = $36,423
• Subtotal: $36,423

Administration

• Intersect Audit Fee (5%) = $12,141
• Adm tasks, milestones report, etc = $9,500
• Subtotal: $21,641

TOTAL: USD $339,955 (485,650 ADA)

The complete platform will be delivered in 6 months, with an additional 6 months of platform support. Totaling 12 months, following a milestone-based execution model.

Development

• Duration: 6 months (structured across 5 milestones).

Milestone 1

• Duration: 1 month
• % Completion: 30%
• Cost: 30%

Milestone 2

• Duration: 1,5 months
• % Completion: 50%
• Cost: 20%

Milestone 3

• Duration: 1 month
• % Completion: 70%
• Cost: 20%

Milestone 4

• Duration: 1,5 month
• % Completion: 90%
• Cost: 20%

Milestone 5

• Duration: 1 month
• % Completion: 100%
• Cost: 10%

Platform support

• Duration: 6 months

Cloud server management

• Duration: 12 months

Team Size: We currently have a team of 5 additional collaborators working together with our core project team. We were able to distribute and organize tasks and sprints within our development roadmap. And we also have some technical professionals waiting to be hired according to the increase in projects.

After the project is completed, the cost of maintenance and inclusion of new features will be simplified and reduced.

Otávio Lima https://www.linkedin.com/in/otavioaclima | https://x.com/otaviolima Entrepreneur and passionate about technology, I started working at age 16 when I set up my first technology company and I never stopped. I founded some internet startups, some successful and others not so much. Started my business for 6 months in Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley, California (USA), in Rio de Janeiro and Belem.

• Founder at CardanoFeed.com the biggest news platform on Cardano since March, 2021
• Founder at GovernanceSpace.com since February, 2025
• Core Member of LATAM Cardano Community since June 2023
• Member of INTERSECT MBO since July 2023
• Manager at Intersect Brazil Hub since July 2023

I'm attended at Cardano's global workshop on CIP-1694 Governance in person in Edinburgh UK (July 2023) and participanting in Cardano Constitutional Workshop in Kenya (November 2024) and Cardano Constiututional Convention in Buenos Aires / Argentina (December 2024).

I'm already organized several official Cardano events for the community including conferences, exhibits, Cardano summits, workshops, CIP-1694 workshops and Intersect workshops.

Our team has previously been approved in some projects on Catalyst and the projects were successfully completed and with a project closure report containing all proof of delivery.

Our team is composed of developers, UX/UI, Marketing, SEO, Marketing, Business and we developed the largest media coverage platform Cardanofeed.com and the Cardano Ecosystem project directory (approximately 1,200+ projects).

After initial development, maintenance costs will be much lower. Upon completion of the project, maintenance and support costs will be simplified and reduced to a reduced cost of $50K/year. New features would be budgeted separately according to scope and work hours. And we will be able to make specific scopes for including improvements and new features to the platform. The project will be fully 100% open source.

While ADAspending.com is a new initiative, it is built upon clearly expressed needs from the Cardano community regarding treasury transparency, governance tooling, and accountability. The following points demonstrate a strong foundation of community interest and alignment:

• Community Conversations & Feedback: In discussions across X Twitter, Telegram groups, and Discord channels, there have been recurring calls for more accessible, centralized tools to explore funding data. Improved transparency into how treasury funds are being spent. Dashboards that make it easier to track proposal outcomes and voting patterns.

• Alignment with Cardano Governance Goals: ADAspending.com directly supports Cardano Governance and Voltaire objectives, particularly those related to accountability of funded proposals, on-chain governance tooling and Informed community decision-making.

• Support from Community Tooling Ecosystem: ADAspending.com complements other existing tools such as GovTool, GovernanceSpace, CardanoScan, Tempo, AdaStat, 1694.io, cGov - not replacing them, but bridging gaps and offering deeper visibility across proposals, spending, and recipients.

• Benchmarking - USAspending.gov: The project is modeled after USAspending.gov, a trusted and widely used transparency platform in the U.S., making this a proven concept with global relevance.

The platform will be integrated with several tools, platforms and services selected by our team according to functionalities and improving the user experience.

• Mesh: Browser Wallet for connecting, queries and performs wallet functions in accordance to CIP-30.

• Cardano DBSync: For chain analysis

• APIs: GovTool, Maestro, Ogmios or Blockfrost.